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Have been seeing this photo as we mark 200k lost. Actually taken early on. In April, a funeral director gazes at casket of Korean War vet who passed from Covid in a Denver nursing home. Today, the solemnity and the flag crystallize the national tragedy. @RickWilking @Reuters

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The startling number of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. represents one of the country's worst health crises in modern memory. https://abcn.ws/2G3fX7u

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Too much hate in the world: Splendid photo-illustration as Louisville locks down and activists await #BreonnaTaylor decision. Like: wearing hearts on our sleeves meets watch out for that facial recognition.

Merrick for America (Anarcho-Waifu)@merrickdeville

Louisville has declared a state of emergency.

The emergency:

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Already crying for the commons. #BreonnaTaylor #Louisville

Hayes Gardner@HayesGardner

Here’s the area around Jefferson Square Park, the hub of protests.

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Context is all.

Neelika Jayawardane@Sugarintheplum

Photography, Power, Representation: Who Gets to Picture, Narrate, Position?
Sama Alshaibi (@samaraena), Zora J Murff, Aaron Turner (@AaronRTurner_), Andrew Jackson (@A_Jax), and I are 1st in a series of dialogues
30 Sept, 12:30PM EST
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It’s not beyond, it’s indicative. When the what is so twisted, no point asking why.

Oliver Willis@owillis

this is amazing. on oan they *blur out* the signage on joe biden's podium. not even fox pulls that kind of thing. amazing!

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